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That is no where near a UAS/UAV, it is a RPV...Remote Piloted Vehicle.
The camera is basically a Pilot View camera on a gimbal, where you can easily purchase. Putting a camera turret in an RC airplane and fly it on an RC box is no big accomplishment, maybe 10+ years ago, not now. If you have to ask, yes, I have been there, done that, and have both seen and touched the elephant. |
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That is no where near a UAS/UAV, it is a RPV...Remote Piloted Vehicle. The camera is basically a Pilot View camera on a gimbal, where you can easily purchase. Putting a camera turret in an RC airplane and fly it on an RC box is no big accomplishment, maybe 10+ years ago, not now. If you have to ask, yes, I have been there, done that, and have both seen and touched the elephant. How did he do the HUD and gps data feed into it? |
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That is no where near a UAS/UAV, it is a RPV...Remote Piloted Vehicle. The camera is basically a Pilot View camera on a gimbal, where you can easily purchase. Putting a camera turret in an RC airplane and fly it on an RC box is no big accomplishment, maybe 10+ years ago, not now. If you have to ask, yes, I have been there, done that, and have both seen and touched the elephant. How did he do the HUD and gps data feed into it? There are lots of OSD board that one can attach a pitot tube, GPS, and a 6 DOF sensor, and overlay the image onto a video signal, and transmit it out, relatively low cost. From the look, the guy was using an Eagle Tree or Dragon OSD system. Eagle Tree is actually better than the Dragon because it is actually an airborne telemetry system built for RC. |
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Simple video overlay for the HUD. Probably sends three streams of data back and they all get compiled and overlayed on the view monitor. Lightest, Easiest, and Cheapest. Exactly like the man said... Video overlay is pretty easy these days. Not like 20 years ago when everything traveled on a 16-bit bus. The overlay plane takes up 8 bits. |
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That is no where near a UAS/UAV, it is a RPV...Remote Piloted Vehicle. The camera is basically a Pilot View camera on a gimbal, where you can easily purchase. Putting a camera turret in an RC airplane and fly it on an RC box is no big accomplishment, maybe 10+ years ago, not now. If you have to ask, yes, I have been there, done that, and have both seen and touched the elephant. So when are you going to get that DIY tutorial put together for us? |
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It's apparently not that hard. [url=http://diydrones.com/[/url] I'll leave the obvious joke alone as I fix your link 
http://diydrones.com/ |
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That is no where near a UAS/UAV, it is a RPV...Remote Piloted Vehicle. The camera is basically a Pilot View camera on a gimbal, where you can easily purchase. Putting a camera turret in an RC airplane and fly it on an RC box is no big accomplishment, maybe 10+ years ago, not now. If you have to ask, yes, I have been there, done that, and have both seen and touched the elephant. So when are you going to get that DIY tutorial put together for us? Not till I am free and clear from the master I work for. 
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The simplest way is to just go buy one of these
http://www.cloudcaptech.com/piccolo_system.shtm You can get all the data you need to do everything he did, plus have the ability to autofly GPS routes, auto takeoff and autoland. I was part of an unmanned systems competition in college where we used a similar unit along with a gimbaled camera to get GPS coordinates of ground targets. We were still tweaking and tuning when I graduated but a couple years after, they switched to cloudcap, won the competition with the highest point total ever and were the first school to ever give accurate GPS coordinates for targets. |